Greetings
Water, water, wherefore art thou o' open water?
Despite frozen reservoir, David Dowell and I had excellent birding yesterday
Jackson Reservoir had a scattering of low-level rarities including Mountain Bluebird, YR Warbler, and WT Sparrow. Among swirling flocks of Cackling/Canada Geese in cornfields there was a Snow x Canada Goose hybrid. The state parks was filled with hundreds of robins, dozens of juncos and Blue Jays (>60), 30+ Cedar Waxwings, an nice smattering of goldfinches, etc.
One field to the south of the reservoir has dense long bent weeds. This field has been filled with sparrows for months, as it was yesterday with nearly 500 WC Sparrows and one WT Sparrow. Oddly, there were no tree sparrows or Song Sparrows. A Prairie Merlin and a Northern Harrier perused the field for lunch.
Linn Grove Cemetery in Greeley was nearly birdless, though the cross-the-road pond a decent variety of ducks
Seeley Reservoir had some open water and a nice variety of waterfowl.
Windsor Lake was frozen. But there were a number of dead fish and ?dead waterfowl? stuck in ice. Feeding there was an adult ICELAND GULL and juv LBB GULL, a smattering of Herring and RB Gulls, a few Bald Eagles and Crows
Near Severance there was a very early (?) or wintering (?) SAY'S PHOEBE.
Cheers
Steve Mlodinow
Longmont CO